Quote by Eric Hoffer
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer

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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

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Minorities
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We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. – Eric Hoffer

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Freedom
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. – Eric Hoffer

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alone
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power
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford

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power

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams

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power

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. – James A. Baldwin

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power

You only have power over people so long as you dont take everything away from them. But when youve robbed a man of everything, hes no longer in your power – hes free again. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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power

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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. – Andrew Weil

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Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something. – Thomas Alva Edison

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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. – Giraldus Cambrensis

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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay, – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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